WHO AM I?: No doubt there's no-one reading me anymore, aside from my five regulars, now that I've been tarred forever by a merciless Crescatter (note: it's generally best assumed that if I could be speaking in hyperbole, I probably am). But if anyone's curious, I'm a senior at a certain midwestern public university which has a reputation for being decent in my chosen fields: political science (#2 overall) and philosophy (I haven't checked the Philosophical Gourmet recently, but we tend to be top 5).
Politically, I tend toward the "vital center" or "mushy middle," depending on which friends of mine you believe. I've been variously described as a Stalinist, Marxist, fascist, revolutionary, Republican and fundamentalist, and all of them were (more or less) accurate accusations, except for the fascist one, which translated more or less to "my politics and yours are different, therefore you must be the embodiment of all evil on the planet earth."
I tend not to write about the things that interest me in a more scholarly way (I've gone toe-to-toe with friends over Montesquieu's connection between political and human bondage, the political consequences of the Exodus story and how realist theories of democracy might be made to be a little less value-neutral), but sort of general things I find to be interesting, more-or-less in politics and culture.
And if you feel like complaining about my godawful choice of blog template (I picked it specifically because of its unhipness), the horrible, horrible name I picked for my blog (I've been too lazy to change it to something else), or any other topic you like (such as my tendency to use intensifiers and qualifiers quite liberally), email me at ntroeste@umich.edu
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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